DUCKBILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does duckbill mean? 

• DUCKBILL (noun)
  The noun DUCKBILL has 2 senses:

1. primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout

2. small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae

  Familiarity information: DUCKBILL used as a noun is rare.

• DUCKBILL (adjective)
  The adjective DUCKBILL has 1 sense:

1. having a beak resembling that of a duck

  Familiarity information: DUCKBILL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUCKBILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

duckbill; paddlefish; Polyodon spathula

Hypernyms ("duckbill" is a kind of...):

ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)

Holonyms ("duckbill" is a member of...):

genus Polyodon; Polyodon (type genus of the Polyodontidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

duck-billed platypus; duckbill; duckbilled platypus; Ornithorhynchus anatinus; platypus

Hypernyms ("duckbill" is a kind of...):

egg-laying mammal; monotreme (the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria)

Holonyms ("duckbill" is a member of...):

genus Ornithorhynchus; Ornithorhynchus (type genus of the family Ornithorhynchidae)

• DUCKBILL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a beak resembling that of a duck

Synonyms:

duck-billed; duckbill

Context example:

a duck-billed dinosaur

Similar:

beaked (having or resembling a beak)